Opinion: Dr. Evil

Wonder Land columnist Daniel Henninger on the murder conviction of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Plus, what should be done to reduce abortions. Photo: Associated Press

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... I ... with all the scandals are opting in Washington this week ... what really got short shrift and that was the murder conviction of Philadelphia abortionist ... Kermit this now ... that's a really really horrifying details ... about how he ... practiced abortion I in pain came up which really ... ought to be a national debate that for some reason ... isn't much of the limits of abortion be in this country ... Wendell and Columnist and Henninger address that in his column this week and were not talk about this very difficult topic ... Dan ... is even possible to have ... a serious debate in this country about the portion these days core of the politics simply too poisonous ... well to this point Mary I think we've proven it is very difficult to have a serious conversation on the vote before shampooing on the one hand you have one the most employees of ... public policy issues in this country is covered dealt with it's gone on for the last forty years since for a week V Wade was decided in nineteen seventy three ... in yet ... the ... aspect of that the actual portions are never discussed that's what came out in the Gaza no trial ... it wasn't nearly that he until these three babies coming in the class of first degree murder after the tomato The Wall ... but in the reporting on we had some discussion of what exactly takes place in normal portions ... and it's something that most people won't talk of opening the gauze Nel ... trial has made it clear that we got to have discovered that we've got to have this conversation but ... maybe it's because we had these three scandals of Washington that cause no ... murders happened to the States sparked that sort of ... national debate that you called for in the Wonderland column this morning what needs to happen to get that that the killing ... well I think probably we need some leadership on this on ... I came to the conclusion that the into my column married the probably the two sides are we some of percussive it's going to have to compromise ... to get this move forward ... mean the Oakland famously said that ... abortion should be rare rare means minimal it is not right it's not it's and it's not naive enough us half of unintended of of that half of most pregnancies in this country are unintended forty percent of those result in a Porsche owns more than a million abortions a year ... the goal should be to re use that number into the ... well I think one way you do it is soft probably two of sign on to the ideas that we do need some form of contraception ... I personally having thought about this in the past week Mary ... although in a lot of my conservative friends who disagree with this I think something like ... the morning after pill plan B in all ... it would probably something that should be supported ... it's the lesser of two evils and we wanna have all these abortions occurring quarter we want them to not get to that point that in your calf Exxon Catholic and a new year here praying position for and ... not just conservatives who oppose but also a lot of Democrats were Catholics would oppose so ... isn't that sort of discussion sort of ... debt and water before he even starts no I think because of the nature of the abortions under number and what happens when they occur ... that this discussion house to take place in you have to face the implications ... of not ... making say a compromise like this ... he argued against it is you are enabling promiscuity ... well it seems to me is promiscuity of the margins is already a problem and that should be dealt with as a separate issue ... the people who are opposed to that kind of sexual behavior ... ought to be making those arduous publicly all the time meanwhile though you've got a deal with the ... moral pull ... on adorable problem in front of a song that is the degree of abortions in the United States not just the degree but it's also when they occur I think this now was horrifying because it was such a late term ... abortion really turn into we also need to have a debate about what we term abortion means about ... thirty seconds left well you know we're talking about twenty weeks or more around twenty weeks which is a leader term abortion and then you get into activities that really are quite repellent and I think ... the pro choice people that's for they have to compromise more limitations might think more curls up input from people trying to see ... later term abortions okay well it's a very tough topic this debate the country needs to have a thing for tackling to marry Wonderland Columnist Dan Henninger thanks very much ...